Ruthless Emperor Is One of a Kind

No one answered Lu Zhou.

Some people did not even dare meet Lu Zhou's seemingly smiling gaze.

"What about you? Do you still think I'm the murderer?"

Lu Zhou crouched in front of Liu Yunzhi and the other two.

Seeing Lu Zhou approach, they did not even dare cry out in pain anymore.

When they heard his question, they all shook their heads in terror.

"Didn't your parents teach you never to casually offend people whose backgrounds you don't know when you're out in the world? Do you really think you're still on Earth?"

"I've been sick of the sight of you for a long time. I've always wanted to beat you up. You've been hopping around all day like fucking clowns. Ptooey!"

Lu Zhou meant every word.

Not to mention that when he had read the novel Covering the Heavens and put himself in the protagonist Ye Fan's shoes, he had already found Liu Yunzhi and the others irritating enough to want to slap those bastards to death.

Now that he had transmigrated, Li Changqing and Liu Yunzhi had actually taken shots at him, Lu, one after another, less than a few hours apart.

They were asking for death. What the fuck was there left to say?

As he spoke, Lu Zhou casually took their backpacks.

With practiced efficiency, he pulled out all the water and some food, such as chocolate, without the slightest politeness.

It would still be a while before they reached the Big Dipper, and Lu's stomach was getting a little hungry!

Everyone saw this, but no one dared say anything.

Lu Zhou stood and walked over to Ye Fan and Pang Bo.

He shrugged at them and smiled.

"See? No matter how much you talk, it'll never be as straightforward as taking action. The world has changed. Those jumping clowns aren't worth wasting your breath on. When you're alive, you can't care too much about what others think!"

"Water and food are precious resources right now. Everyone should be hungry, so please help distribute them."

He took an unopened bottle of water and three chocolate bars for himself, then handed the rest to Ye Fan and Pang Bo.

"Sure!"

Pang Bo grinned, took the food and water, and began distributing them to everyone.

He had long wanted to do what Lu Zhou had just done.

Back at the Five-Colored Altar on Mars, when he saw Ye Fan nearly get killed, Pang Bo had even wanted to kill Li Changqing and the others on the spot.

"We must immediately find out what caused his death."

Ye Fan spoke.

If they did not find the cause of death, danger would hang over everyone present.

Ye Fan's words also reminded the others.

Only then did they remember that one of their classmates had died and his corpse had already gone cold.

No one paid attention to Liu Yunzhi and the other two, who were still lying on the ground.

Everyone looked toward the dead man.

What happened next was not much different from Lu Zhou's memories.

They discovered that the man had been killed by a Divine Crocodile. Ye Fan and Lu Zhou joined forces to kill it!

This incident extinguished the scraps of sympathy some people had felt for Liu Yunzhi and the others.

No one was an idiot. They could all see that Liu Yunzhi and his group had been targeting Ye Fan and Lu Zhou.

"Shh!"

Ye Fan suddenly made a gesture for silence.

Then he stared toward the small Bronze Coffin at the center, as though listening to something.

"Did you hear anything?"

Everyone except Lu Zhou was shocked.

They had heard nothing.

The moment Ye Fan asked that question, Lu Zhou threw away the Jade Ruyi and Vajra Pestle in his hands.

While gripping three Bodhi Leaves in each hand, he immediately used his Great Emperor-level comprehension once.

Then, just like Ye Fan, he involuntarily walked toward the small bronze coffin and reached out to touch it.

At that moment, he felt the Bodhi Leaves in his hands grow hot, as though they had forcibly opened a door for him, allowing him to hear an extremely special sound.

The sound entered directly into the depths of his heart, becoming increasingly grand and majestic. It seemed like the heavenly voice of the Great Dao, yet also like a profound and mysterious truth.

"The way of Heaven diminishes excess and replenishes deficiency."

With his Great Emperor-level comprehension fully unleashed, Lu Zhou did not naively believe that this comprehension alone would let him decipher, in a short time, the scripture related to the Desolate Heaven Emperor.

He did everything he could to memorize the scripture, which was only a few hundred characters long, imprinting every word deeply into his heart.

No one knew how much time had passed before Lu Zhou and Ye Fan regained consciousness at almost the same moment.

Several hundred ancient characters had been completely engraved into their hearts, as though they could never be erased.

Ye Fan stood there in a daze, muttering the scripture to himself.

The massive Bronze Coffin shook violently.

Everyone felt the world spin around them.

They knew that Nine Dragon Pulling Coffin had finally reached its destination.

Not long afterward, Nine Dragon Pulling Coffin descended into the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land.

One after another, they shouted as they rushed out of the Bronze Coffin. They gazed at everything before them and exclaimed in all kinds of ways. Many felt as though they had been reborn.

Lu Zhou also looked around in shock.

Even though, when he had read the novel, he had imagined the various sights of the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land more than once based on the original descriptions—

When he saw these scenes with his own eyes, he was still utterly stunned.

Especially when he personally witnessed an elephant being snatched up and carried away by a Golden-Winged Great Peng.

Only then did he suddenly realize just how fitting the line he had once joked about while reading the original was: a kun is so huge that not even one pot can stew it.

One pot really could not stew this thing!

A ding sounded in Lu Zhou's ears.

It jolted him awake.

The system was notifying him!

The host has arrived at the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land. Does the host wish to sign in?

Lu Zhou answered silently in his heart.

Sign in!

Ding! The host has successfully signed in at the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land. The host has obtained the Xingzi Secret of the Nine Secrets!

In an instant, a vast amount of information about the Xingzi Secret flooded into Lu Zhou's mind.

The process was quick.

It took no more than a single breath.

Lu Zhou tried to sort through the information, but found it obscure and immensely profound. He could not understand it at all.

He thought he now knew why his sign-in rewards included gains related to comprehension.

Lu Zhou had no comment on this sign-in reward!

He was certainly disappointed.

What he lacked most right now was not one of the Nine Secrets, but cultivation techniques and a cultivation physique.

In the world of Covering the Heavens, cultivation techniques and physiques could not determine a cultivator's upper limit, but they determined their lower limit.

There was only one Ruthless Emperor!

Her talent was unmatched by anyone!

At that moment, Lu Zhou noticed another problem.

After this sign-in, the system had not directly told him where the next sign-in location would be.

Just as he was considering this question—

The system's voice rang out in his mind again.

The system told him that because he had arrived in the main world, the Big Dipper, it would no longer forcibly designate sign-in locations for him. He would need to discover them himself!

"Lu Zhou, we're planning to look around nearby for something to eat. Do you want to come with us?"

Lu Zhou turned toward the voice.

Ye Fan and Pang Bo were walking over to him.

Ye Fan smiled and invited him.